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September 26, 2026

ECS Attestation in Proteus: Why Custom Plugins Beat Pre-Shared Tokens on Fargate

Why SPIRE's aws_iid attestor doesn't work on Fargate, how I built a custom ECS attestor plugin to replace it, and why using IAM roles as proof is more scalable than join tokens. Full architecture, integration flow, and comparison.

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August 31, 2026

SPIFFE on ECS with Envoy

Building a poor man's zero-trust mesh on ECS Fargate: mTLS between services with SPIFFE/SPIRE and Envoy. A custom node attestor proves the task via the ECS API, an admission controller gates which service identity it may hold, and identity is deny-by-default until admitted.

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